Pipe-carrier support



Jan. 27. 1925. 1,524,310

E. K. POST PIPE. CARRIER SUPPORT Filed Aug. 29. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet l @27' f5 v@57'l gwumtoz @milf/90% E. K. POST PIPE CARRIER SUPPORT Filed Aug, 29. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 attozmq Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES ERNEST K. POST, OF COLLINGSWOO'D, NEW JERSEY.

:PIPE-CARRIER SUPPORT.

Application led August 29, 1923.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, ERNEST K. Pos'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Collingswood, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful PipeCarrier Support, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supports for piping adapted to carry along the side of the track or across the track the pipes that operate switches and signals.

rlhe main purpose of my invention is to hold all of the individual supports at the same time by a single fastening so that all can be released together' for adjustment or replacement and all can be fastened at one operation in their selected positions.

A further purpose is to use a common fastening for all the individual pipe supv ports.

A further purpose is to clamp the bases of the side supports between the upper edges of horizontal facing channels, clamping the lower edges of the facing channels along and against suitable stops.

A further purpose is to clamp the channels together by bolts and to form the bases of the individual pipe supports so as to resiliently resist the clamping action, so as to lirmly hold simultaneously any number of individual supports without requiring exact parallelism between the clamping edges or exact duplication in the dimensions of the different supports. The resilience provides etcientmeans for locking the nuts of the clamps. j

A further purpose is to provide novel means for lateral adjustments of the side supports.

Further purposes will appear in the specification and in the claims.

I havepreferred to show one main form only of my invention, with one minor modification, among the various forms in which it may appear, selecting a form that is practical, efficient, easily assembled and adjusted and in a broadway inexpensive and that illustrates particularly well the principles involved.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the preferred form, looking in the direction of the pipe-rods, three of which are shown in section.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a broken perspective of Figure 1.

Serial No. 659,991.

Figure Il is a broken perspective from be low of one of the pipe supports.

Figure 5 is a broken perspective of the chamfered stop for the lower edges of the channels.

Figure v6 in broken perspective shows a modified form of stop.

In all figures like numbers refer to like parts.

Referring to the drawings and describing` in illustration and not in limitation The pipes 10 for the operation of switches and signals are carried along side the track rails upon spaced rows of rollers 11. The rollers are externally grooved to lit the pipes carried and are mounted upon individual pivot pins 12 which roll along the runways 13 during manipulation of the piping. The pipe retaining rollers 111 turning in the forks 15 at the tops of housing members 16 maintain the pipes in place upon their respective rolls. All of these parts, so far described are old and have been used in the form shown.

My invention relates specifically to the novel bases 17 for the housing members and to the means by which they are adjustably supported upon the pier 18.

rlhe bases are grooved along their opposite sides near the bottoms, parallel to the axes of the rollers at 19 to receive the opposing edges of the upper flanges 2O and 21 of opposing side clamping members which in their most eflicient form are channels 22 and 23. The lower flanges 2-1 and 25 of these channels rest upon the concrete pier 18, facing one another parallel to the axes of the rolls.

The opposing bott-om edges 24 and 25 of the channel lock against stop abutments of which one form is shown at 26, at the same time that the opposing upper edges stop against and lock within the grooves 19 on the housing members. The channels are drawn toward each other by bolts and nuts 27 clamp the channels together, firmly gripping the stop abutment 26 at the bottom and the bases of the housing member along the grooves 19 at the top.

The base divides or forks at 28 parallel with and between the channels so as resiliently to yield somewhat when the nuts 27 are tightened. This yielding avoids the necessity for exact duplication of the housing members and for exact uniformity and parallelism of the channel edges. The resilient pressure against the upper channel edges acts to'l'ock the clainpingnuts `27.

The base of each is preferably fianged additionally above the groove 19 at 29 .to provide a wide seat upon the tops of the channels, enough wider than the width below the groove for the bolts to be slackened and the channels spread to permit an intermediate support to be lifted out (upwardly) without danger of the other supports dropping through the opening.

The flange is preferably extended to either Yside along the channel lengths to a distance half the proper spacing of adjacent housing members, so that adjacent housing members are properly spaced when Vthese flanges of adjacent membersare placed end to end, making contact at 30.

The stop abutment 26 along the top of the pier and between the lower edges of the channels is vpreferably a bar 3l held to pla-ee by hook bolts 32 hooking into the pier at- 33. The diagonal faces 34 along opposite sides of this ibar slope up from the pier to overhang t-he edges of the bottom flanges 24 and Q'of the channels, and the clamping action of the bolts 27 wedges the lower sides of the channels against the top of the pier steadying and stiffening the entire structure.

The stop abutment may be any abutment adapted Yto receivethe lower edges of the channels. In the modified form shown in Figure 6,l vertical threaded rods 35 are set in the concrete at or near different ends of the channels or at spaced intervals along the channel if the channels be long, and suitable abutment nuts or washers 8G are held in place by nuts 37. The bottom of the bolt is preferably a hook or other noncircular shape to prevent its working loose in the concrete, The resilience of the clamp due to the springing of thesplit bases is rordinarily sufficient to lock the nuts, but

extra nuts may be used to lock as an additional precaution. Several abutment nuts of stops shown are thus engageable laterally along" the length of the pier, giving the same effect as respects the hold offered and prevention of'turning as if they comprise one continuous strip.

My invention has advantages in the solidity vand cheapness of the parts, the ease of assembly and disassembly" and the ease pwith which wide adjustment may be made.

Then the nuts 27 clamping the channels together areloosenedv slightly, the channels may be slid bodily to any desired extent along the top of the pier and the housing members my if desired also be slid along and* between the tops ofthe channels.

lNhen the bolts 27 have been loosened somewhat more any; one or more of the housing members oryisupports may be lifted out for replaeementjgor removal .Without dis-- turbing the others, the channels separating at the top far enough to permlt the housing members to be lifted out upwardly.

ln view ,of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art to meet individualwhim or particular need and I claim all such in so Vfar as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention'.

Having thus described my invention what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A pair of spaced housings adapted to carry a roller between them vfor the support of switch and signal pipe and provided `with grooves along the bottom of the housings in combination with common clamping mechanism for the two housings fitting into the grooves, a pier and means vfor supporting the clamping from the pier;

2. A pair of spaced housings adapted to support a roller between them for carrying switch or signal pipe and having groovcd bottom portions. flanges directly above (he grooves wider than the width of the housings below the grooves` clamps common to both housings engaging the housings within the grooves.

BfA pair of spaced housings and a roller carried by them forming supports for a pipe` forked bases for the supports, and a clamp holder for the bases` engaging the 'forks and` against the spring of the fork material holding the ends of thev forks nearer together than normal spacing.

4t. A series of spaced housings, a plurality of pipe rollers carried by them, forked'bases for the housings.v and a common clamp holder therefor engaging theI forks and.' against the spring of ther fork material holding the ends of the forks nearer together than normal spacing.

5. A Ser-ies of spaced. housings adapted to receive a plurality of pipe rollers, forked bases for the housings, and a common clamp support therefor engaging the forks and pressing the fork ends toward each other against the resilience of the material. i

V6. A pair of interchangeable spaced holisings` a pipe roller carried by them, a forked base for each housing, the baseshaving feet laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom and parallel with the roller axis, a clamp having iaws fitting along the grooves pressing the feet together, and supporting means for the clamp.

7. A pair of spaced housings. a pipe roller carried by the housings. a bifurcated base .for each housing having feet laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom and parallel with the axis of the roller, ak pair of horizontal facing channels having upper edges fitting the. grooves to support the housings, a. pier supporting the channels,

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stop abutment between the channels fastened to the pier and sloping upwardly therefrom over the opposing lower edges of the channels, and bolts clamping the channels together. y

8. A pair of spaced housings, a pipe roller carried thereby, a bifurcated base for each housing having feet laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom and parallel with the axis `of the roller, a pier and a pair of clamping members rigidly connected with the pier and having flanges entering the grooves to grip the housings.

E). A pair of spaced housings, a pipe roller carried thereby, a bifurcated base for each housing having feet laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom and parallel with the axis of the roller, and having greater width above the groove than below it, a pier and a pair of clamping members rigidly connected with the pier and having flanges entering the grooves to grip the housings.

10. A pair of spaced housings, a pipe roller carried thereby, a. bifurcated base for each housing having feet laterally grooved on the outside near `the bottom and parallel with the axis of the roller, a pair of horizontal facing channels having upper edges .fitting the grooves to support and clamp the housings, a pier supporting the channels, a bar bolted thereon between the lower edges of the opposing channels chamfered from the top of the pier to overhang the edges of the channels and stopping and spacing and vertically locking these edges, and bolts clamping the channels together.

11. A pair of spaced housings, a pipe roller carried thereby, a bifurcated base for each housing having feet laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom and parallel with the aXis of the roller, a pair of horizontal facing channels having upper edges fitting `the grooves to support and clamp the housings, a pier supporting the channels, a bar thereon and bolted thereto, eX- tending between the lower edges of the opposing channels, chamfered from the pier to overhang the .lower edges of the channels and stopping and spacing and vertically locking these edges, and bolts clamping the channels together.

l2. A plurality of spaced housings having bearings, a base for each housing laterally grooved on the outside near the bottom parallel to the axes of the bearings, a pair of horizontal facing channels having upper edges fitting -the grooves to support the housings, a pier supporting the channels, stop means between the channels for a distance fastened to `the pier and sloping upward therefrom to overhang the opposing lower edges of the channels, and devices clamping the channels together.

13. A series of spaced housings, a plurality of pipe rollers carried by them having axes in line, a common clamp holder for the bases of the housings, clamping them transversely to the vertical plane through the axes and a support for the holder.

14. A series of spaced housings, a plurality of pipe supports carried by them, a pien fastening means in the pier and a common support for the housings above the fastening means, clamping and spacing said housings Aand means.

15. A pier, fastening means engageable laterally along the length of the pier, clamps engaging the fastening means, transversely of the pier length, pipe supporting rollers and carriers for the rollers engaged by the clamps and by them supported above the fastening means.

ERNEST K. POST.. 

